Scholes: We’re Lucky To Have Kagawa

Paul Scholes, who has been used sparingly so far this season, has sung the praises of the quality of our squad and is happy with the competition for places.

“You always like to see new players come in even if they’re in your position because it’s healthy for the team and exciting to play with the new players,” he told ManUtd.com. “We’ve got strength everywhere in the squad. We’ve struggled with injuries to defenders, but when we have everyone fit I think there are two teams that the manager has available to him and that could compete in the Premier League and cup competitions. It all looks very healthy and, as players, we know when we get given our chance we have to take it. If you don’t, you’ll be out of the team, simple as that. All the new signings have settled in well. Shinji has been with us since the start of pre-season so he’s had a good amount of time to settle in. He’s a top class player who did great in Germany and we’re lucky to have him. Nick Powell has done really well. He hasn’t had much first team action yet but he’s only a young lad and there’s plenty of time for him. He has great quality. Robin is a top signing and we all hope to form a good understanding with him as the season goes on and Alex [Buttner] played his first game for the Under 21s last week and did really well. There’s great competition for places with so many good players here and there are plenty of games to come.”

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Scholesy breaks his silence more often these days. Great to see. Wonder what sort of player powell is shaping up to be. Haven’t seen much of him, but i think we could ease in Buttner hopefully at some point soon.

@BigRed. Think they will have to go looking for young Alex. Lad must be higher than a kite at the moment. Imagine 3 weeks ago.. a nobody. Now on CL and EPL rosters for greatest team he could ever imagine playing for.
Expect they will have to peel him off the freekin ceiling and glue him in some weighed boots!

Really love this kid. Him and Bebe and Bolt should all start v Real Madrid . . . . (the charity game of course).

When Scholes talks you better listen. One of the BEST footballing brains of his generation. Kagawa will flourish at United. We just need to make him the focal point of the attack and we will see his very best,

“Shinji is just a clever footballer who gets into those great positions where it’s difficult for other teams to pick him up. He’s always on the move which makes it easier for the midfielders to find him. He really fits in with the way we play. It’s important that he links up well with the midfielders and centre forwards and he’s already shown he’s clever enough to do that. He’s very intelligent and someone we all enjoy playing with.”

Scholes there is’nt enough superlatives for the guy just so composed on the ball, dictates play smart move that on the weekend when the saints we’re starting to get heavy legged you have sat-nav coming on exploting space, and so forth

paul scholes came out of retirement last season .he was 37 and i thought he was still much better than modric.if paul had played from the start i think we would have won the league.thats why i am realy happy that we didnt bid 35 million for luka. he would not have made our team much better .

As i m from Croatia…i m not convinced that Modric is that good like people saying…he didnt play to many good games for Croatia…
We will see in RM how is he playing. In last game journalists said he was great…

@Marq
Oh dear are you still crying yourself to sleep at night because your baby Berba left you?
I don’t wear pants as you like to imagine. I wear boxer shorts because I prefer freedom of movement.
Has Modric only ever had one good game then? Did SAF not sound out signing Modric as a replacement for Scholes? Was I imagining all this? Do you know more than SAF? Perhaps you should see if SAF will recommend you as the next United manager. I suppose Modric is shite then which is why Real Madrid signed him. Well done.

@Marq
I have no idea what proerly means. Obviously I can’t comprehend your astonishingly high levels of Baby Berba Love. I’m sorry but he just doesn’t give me wet dreams like he does you.

@ DreadedRed
Am I really? And who are you?
Have you ever even been to Old Trafford?
Or do you just like calling people names because it makes you feel big and hard…? :S

@Marq and @DreadedRed
If you can’t take my comments on Baby Berba then don’t respond to them. Just because I disagree with your unwarranted praise for a player who had one decent season but hardly even registered a goal against a top four club in all the time he was at United when he played or couldn’t even get a game because SAF didn’t think he was food enough for the starting 11. Then he doesnt want to say goodbye to SAF because to some extent he has lost respect for The Greatest Manager of all time and you think that is acceptable?
Since when is the feelings of one player more important than United? Never has. Never will be.

@Red Robin
SAF gives the fans the run around as much as the press.
Just because he doesn’t want anyone to really know who his transfer targets are
Kagawa was a very good alternative to Modric. I don’t quite know whether he is a Scholes in the making though.

@Marq
Trolled by media headlines?
Trolled by saying he to some extent respect for SAF after being left out of the Champions League Final? Is that being trolled? Or should we say SAF is a bad person because he left him out. Boo hoo. Happy wearing your Baby Berba Tinted Glasses? Watch out you’ll get tan lines in the summer.

Alpha, have you read the actual comments? He said he lost some of his respect for the manager because he was constantly lied to about having a role in the side. He even pointed out that the manager has the right to pick whatever team he wants. He just wanted to know if he’s needed or not. Have a look at Berbatov’s actual comments. If you want I can provide the translation some Bulgarians did. You will find out they aren’t as malicious as you’d like to think.

@King Eric – haha beat me to it. Hows it going mate? Still don’t see the hype around Modric myself. Makes me laugh when people compare new players to the 37 year old Scholes of today. He’s gone from Striker to CM and he’s been top drawer the whole flipping time, including right now. Scholes is in a league of his own, no comparisons.

The Fergie comment on Charlie Adam was classic. That caused LFC to spend even more than they initially intended for him. We were not at all interested in Adam.

Scholes’ entrance on Sunday had the effect of making it a totally different game. Seldom do I see Cleverly attempt and complete the long passes that defenses dread and that make Valencia so menacing as Scholes does. Our movement off the ball immediately improved! The Saints defense was immediately stretched. Modric does not have that effect on games yet.

Berba’s comments were classy. He did not demean SAF or United. He even noted that his playing style is incongruous to how SAF wanted it done. That is the crux of the matter. Berba CHOSE not to change his playing style. He KNEW what SAF wanted. He was the EMPLOYEE. If SAF didn’t think Berba was capable of fitting into that style he would have offloaded him much earlier. I think he wanted Dimitar to stay , work hard to adapt his style of play and be piece of the puzzle.